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Like many American cities, Philadelphia saw a gradual yet
pronounced rise in crime in the years following World War II. There
were 525 murders in 1990, a rate of 31.5 per 100,000. There were an
average of about 600 murders a year for most of the 1990s. The
murder count dropped in 2002 to 288, then rose four years later to
406 in 2006 and 392 in 2007. In 2006, Philadelphia's homicide rate
of 27.7 per 100,000 people was the highest of the country's 10 most
populous cities. In 2011, there were 324 murders, a rate of 21.2
per 100,000 people.

In 2004, there were 7,513.5 crimes per 200,000 people in
Philadelphia. In 2005, Philadelphia was ranked by Morgan Quitno as
the sixth-most dangerous among 32 American cities with populations
over 500,000. A…